In order to get e-mail digests of your subscriptions (stuff you care about around the site) and notifications of private messages from your fellow users, you must validate your email. We also may send a newsletter periodically to update you on the goings on of the community. You can choose to receive any, all, or none of these by clicking the "My Profile" tab at the top of this page, then the "Edit Account" button at the top of that page.

If it has been more than fifteen minutes, check your Spam folder in your email client to ensure that it was accidentally quarantined. To resend your verification email, log in. On your logged in home page, if you have not verified your email you will see an alert next to your avatar that says, "Your email address has not been verified. Please click here to re-send." If you're experiencing additional issues, please contact us.

When you're viewing your own Profile page, there is a button that says "Edit Account." From there it's very easy to reset your password, email address, and other account details. At this time, you cannot change your user name after you have registered. For more information on how to edit your user profile, head over to our Community Profile Tutorial.

With so many options, which medium is appropriate for what type of content? While we believe it's ultimately up to you to decide, here's a bit of guidance.

First, forums, articles, product pages (and reviews of those) are all separate features and different ways you can interact with the site and its members. They are tied together across the site to make related information easier to find, but there are in fact many differences.

Type

What is it?

Suggested Use

Forums

ideal place for group interaction

here each user can start new threads, respond to existing threads and posts, etc.

Don't forget to tag your threads and Wikis, so that it shows up on the appropriate product pages and other areas so that others can respond and contribute! Learn more about tagging in our Tagging Tutorial.

Our members create a great deal of content, but not all of it will be for you - that's why you can subscribe to what's interesting. You can subscribe to specific threads in forums, to individual articles, or to tags, or users so you receive updates of all of their content.

You can determine the frequency with which you receive these updates. When you're logged in, go to your profile and click "Edit Subscriptions" - here you can set the frequency of each subscription to Immediate, Daily, Weekly, or Site Only. Learn more about subscriptions in our Subscription Tutorial.

The Rich Text Editor allows you to create posts, reviews, and comments using our What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editor. You can create tables, embed images and videos, bold and italicize and more without have to type any special code for the formatting you want.

The BB Code Editor is a simplified editor with fewer formatting options but allows you to use familiar BB Code tags. For quick responses without a great deal of formatting, the BB Code Editor is a great choice. Our BB Code Editor supports:

Most all content in the site has the option to rate or vote it up. This helps the best content rise up above the mediocre (or downright bad) content. Beyond that, you can flag or report a forum post, review, image, article, etc. with the "Report to Admin" button.

Only users in certain user groups are allowed to upload or download attachments. If you received an error message that says "Sorry, you don't have the required permissions to download attachments.", then you are not in one of those user groups.

Your Lists are a way of organizing the items you Own, Want, and Had. When you want to add an item to a list, simply go to that item's product page, and click "Add to List." You can create new lists from your user profile at any time.

Lists are a means to connect you with other members with similar interests and experience who you can hopefully learn from or at least enjoying talking to. We also compile everyone's List data to provide you with unbiased statistics about what products the community is actually using. Learn more about editing Lists with the Community Profile Tutorial.

At any time, you can add a new item to the database. It is, however, very important that you don't add a duplicate of something that we already have. If it's just a different color of something else in the system, please don't add it- just update the existing product. If we really don't have it and it fits within the existing categories, then go for it! Clicking the "Add Item" links throughout the site will prompt a wizard that will take you through the process of adding it to the correct product category. Check out a step by step guide to adding items with the Add A New Item Tutorial.

Unfortunately, this is an issue with Internet Explorer 7 and 8. To deactivate this popover, you will need to change your browser security settings:

Go to Tools -> Internet Options.

Go to Security tab.

Select “Internet” zone, then click on “Custom level…” button.

Scroll down to “Scripting” section (at the bottom few).

Under “Allow Programmatic clipboard access” option, check or select (tick) Enable. Default action for this option is Prompt, which cause the pop-up message whenever there is any attempt to access the Clipboard.

Click OK twice to exit from Internet Options.

Why can't I right click and use Firefox or Chrome's spell checker?
If you are using the rich text editor, the right click is needed to be able to pull up image and table properties, cut and paste, etc. However, there is a work-around to be able to keep using it. Simply hold ctrl (PC) or Command (Mac) when you right click in Firefox, it will treat the right click as though it's outside of the text editor.

You may also consider switching your preference to the BB Code editor by modifying your Account Details preferences. This editor does not use context menus which will allow you to use the browser's right click spell check.

In order to get e-mail digests of your subscriptions (stuff you care about around the site) and notifications of private messages from your fellow users, you must validate your email. We also may send a newsletter periodically to update you on the goings on of the community. You can choose to receive any, all, or none of these by clicking the "My Profile" tab at the top of this page, then the "Edit Account" button at the top of that page.

If it has been more than fifteen minutes, check your Spam folder in your email client to ensure that it was accidentally quarantined. To resend your verification email, log in. On your logged in home page, if you have not verified your email you will see an alert next to your avatar that says, "Your email address has not been verified. Please click here to re-send." If you're experiencing additional issues, please contact us.

When you're viewing your own Profile page, there is a button that says "Edit Account." From there it's very easy to reset your password, email address, and other account details. At this time, you cannot change your user name after you have registered. For more information on how to edit your user profile, head over to our Community Profile Tutorial.

With so many options, which medium is appropriate for what type of content? While we believe it's ultimately up to you to decide, here's a bit of guidance.

First, forums, articles, product pages (and reviews of those) are all separate features and different ways you can interact with the site and its members. They are tied together across the site to make related information easier to find, but there are in fact many differences.

Type

What is it?

Suggested Use

Forums

ideal place for group interaction

here each user can start new threads, respond to existing threads and posts, etc.

Don't forget to tag your threads and Wikis, so that it shows up on the appropriate product pages and other areas so that others can respond and contribute! Learn more about tagging in our Tagging Tutorial.

Our members create a great deal of content, but not all of it will be for you - that's why you can subscribe to what's interesting. You can subscribe to specific threads in forums, to individual articles, or to tags, or users so you receive updates of all of their content.

You can determine the frequency with which you receive these updates. When you're logged in, go to your profile and click "Edit Subscriptions" - here you can set the frequency of each subscription to Immediate, Daily, Weekly, or Site Only. Learn more about subscriptions in our Subscription Tutorial.

The Rich Text Editor allows you to create posts, reviews, and comments using our What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editor. You can create tables, embed images and videos, bold and italicize and more without have to type any special code for the formatting you want.

The BB Code Editor is a simplified editor with fewer formatting options but allows you to use familiar BB Code tags. For quick responses without a great deal of formatting, the BB Code Editor is a great choice. Our BB Code Editor supports:

Most all content in the site has the option to rate or vote it up. This helps the best content rise up above the mediocre (or downright bad) content. Beyond that, you can flag or report a forum post, review, image, article, etc. with the "Report to Admin" button.

Only users in certain user groups are allowed to upload or download attachments. If you received an error message that says "Sorry, you don't have the required permissions to download attachments.", then you are not in one of those user groups.

Your Lists are a way of organizing the items you Own, Want, and Had. When you want to add an item to a list, simply go to that item's product page, and click "Add to List." You can create new lists from your user profile at any time.

Lists are a means to connect you with other members with similar interests and experience who you can hopefully learn from or at least enjoying talking to. We also compile everyone's List data to provide you with unbiased statistics about what products the community is actually using. Learn more about editing Lists with the Community Profile Tutorial.

At any time, you can add a new item to the database. It is, however, very important that you don't add a duplicate of something that we already have. If it's just a different color of something else in the system, please don't add it- just update the existing product. If we really don't have it and it fits within the existing categories, then go for it! Clicking the "Add Item" links throughout the site will prompt a wizard that will take you through the process of adding it to the correct product category. Check out a step by step guide to adding items with the Add A New Item Tutorial.

Unfortunately, this is an issue with Internet Explorer 7 and 8. To deactivate this popover, you will need to change your browser security settings:

Go to Tools -> Internet Options.

Go to Security tab.

Select “Internet” zone, then click on “Custom level…” button.

Scroll down to “Scripting” section (at the bottom few).

Under “Allow Programmatic clipboard access” option, check or select (tick) Enable. Default action for this option is Prompt, which cause the pop-up message whenever there is any attempt to access the Clipboard.

Click OK twice to exit from Internet Options.

Why can't I right click and use Firefox or Chrome's spell checker?
If you are using the rich text editor, the right click is needed to be able to pull up image and table properties, cut and paste, etc. However, there is a work-around to be able to keep using it. Simply hold ctrl (PC) or Command (Mac) when you right click in Firefox, it will treat the right click as though it's outside of the text editor.

You may also consider switching your preference to the BB Code editor by modifying your Account Details preferences. This editor does not use context menus which will allow you to use the browser's right click spell check.